Exercise 1.2.15

Let V = { (a1,a2,,an) : ai R for i = 1,2,,n}; so V is a vector space over R by Example 1. Is V a vector space over the field of complex numbers with the operations of coordinatewise addition and multiplication?

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No. Because a real-valued vector scalar multiply with a complex number will not always be a real-valued vector.

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